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Rain at the Gateway

June 26, 2009 15:17 IST
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Image: An Indian couple stands in the rain at a waterfront in Bombay June 15, 2004. India's south-west monsoon arrived on schedule in Bombay, the country's financial capital.
Photographs: Arko Datta/Reuters
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Image: People use plastic sheets to take cover from monsoon rains in Mumbai August 7, 2007.
Photographs: Arko Datta/Reuters
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Image: Aloke Saha, an Indian umbrella vendor, waits for customers in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta on June 14, 2004. Monsoon rains are sweeping across many parts of India after a long spell of intense heat.
Photographs: Sucheta Das/Reuters
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Image: Monsoon clouds gather over the Gateway of India in Mumbai August 1, 2007. Torrential rains accompanied by strong storms over large parts of the subcontinent have brought down houses, uprooted trees and disrupted power to hundreds of villages.
Photographs: Punit Paranjpe/Reuters
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